All The Madmen

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First Bowie tab... He is like my favourite male solo singer, so it's quite an event to me. The other tabs for
this song really sounded mostly wrong, so I decided to tab it properly. The only weird chord is E5, which
I play like this:
E5
022400
Hope you enjoy it, this song is a real underrated masterpiece.
Please rate and comment!
==Edit==
David Bowie passed away a few days ago after a tough battle against cancer. Words can't express how I
felt when I woke up and got to know about his death, and any attempt to describe how much he and his
music have helped me, to phrase what his works mean to me, would probably sound superficial, predictable
and dull. Only a few artists have been as determining, significant and important to me as he was, and I
thought he was sort of immortal. But he wasn't.
Yet I like to think his music will live on and keep inspiring generations... As the poet says, only art
can make us eternal, and Bowie will always be my epitome of art.
This tab is my personal homage to Major Tom, the Man Who Sold The World, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane,
Halloween Jack, the Thin White Duke, the Man Who Fell To Earth, the Blackstar... to David Bowie.
Thanks for everything, you are my hero.
Em7Em Em7
/ / / /
EmG E5 E5
/ / / /
E5
Day after day
E7 E
They send my friends away
E7 E
To mansions cold and grey
F
To the far side of town
Dm Em
Where the thin men stalk the streets
F E5
While the sane stay underground
E5
Day after day
E7 E
They tell me I can go
E7 E
They tell me I can blow
F
To the far side of town
Dm Em
Where it's pointless to be high
F E
'Cause it's such a long way down
E
So I tell them that
Dm F
I can fly, I will scream, I will break my arm
Dm E
I will do me harm
Dm F
Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall
Dm E
I'm not quite right at all, am I?
F G
Don't set me free, I'm as heavy as can be
F E
Just my librium and me and my EST makes three
E A E
'Cause I'd rather stay here with all the madmen
F#m A C#
Than perish with the sadmen roaming free
A E
And I'd rather play here with all the madmen
F#m A Bm
For I'm quite content they're all as sane as me
Bm E A
/ / / /
F#mBm G
/ / / /
(Where can the horizon lie
When a nation hides
Its organic minds in a cellar, dark and grim,
They must be very dim)
E5
Day after day
E7 E
They take some brain away
E7 E
Then turn my face around
F
To the far side of town
Dm E
And tell me that it's real
F E
Then ask me how I feel
E E E/DF
/ / / / /
Dm E E
/ / / /
E E/D F
Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall
Dm E
I'm not quite right at all
F G
Don't set me free, I'm as helpless as can be
F E
My libido's split on me, gimme some good 'ole lobotomy
E A E
'Cause I'd rather stay here with all the madmen
F#m A C#
Than perish with the sadmen roaming free
A E
And I'd rather play here with all the madmen
F#m A Bm
For I'm quite content they're all as sane as me
Bm Bm E E
/ / / / /
A F#m
Zane, zane, zane, ouvre le chien
Bm G
Zane, zane, zane ouvre le chien

All The Madmen chords and lyrics

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First Bowie tab... He is like my favourite male solo singer, so it's quite an event to me. The other tabs for
this song really sounded mostly wrong, so I decided to tab it properly. The only weird chord is E5, which
I play like this:
E5 022400
Hope you enjoy it, this song is a real underrated masterpiece.
Please rate and comment!
==Edit==
David Bowie passed away a few days ago after a tough battle against cancer. Words can't express how I
felt when I woke up and got to know about his death, and any attempt to describe how much he and his
music have helped me, to phrase what his works mean to me, would probably sound superficial, predictable
and dull. Only a few artists have been as determining, significant and important to me as he was, and I
thought he was sort of immortal. But he wasn't. 
Yet I like to think his music will live on and keep inspiring generations... As the poet says, only art
can make us eternal, and Bowie will always be my epitome of art.
This tab is my personal homage to Major Tom, the Man Who Sold The World, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane,
Halloween Jack, the Thin White Duke, the Man Who Fell To Earth, the Blackstar... to David Bowie.
Thanks for everything, you are my hero.
/ Em7 / Em / Em7 /
/ Em G / E5 / E5 / 
/ Bm / E / A /
/ F#m / Bm / G /
(Where can the horizon lie 
When a nation hides 
Its organic minds in a cellar, dark and grim,
They must be very dim)
/ E / E / E/D / F /
/ Dm / E / E /
/ Bm / Bm / E / E /

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